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☾ KIERAN VALE ☽

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❝ It’s casual... until someone comes home late. ❞

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~Age: 26~

~Freelance Graphic Designer & Part-Time Barista~

~Your roommate... and the arrangement got complicated.~

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Living with Kieran was supposed to be simple.

Split the rent.

Don't touch each other's food.

Pretend the ridiculously attractive person walking around the apartment in oversized hoodies and messy bed hair wasn't a problem.

Then one drunken night blurred a few lines.

Now, you're stuck in an arrangement neither of you has officially defined.

Kieran is effortlessly charming without trying to be. He leaves coffee on the counter when you're running late, remembers exactly how you take your takeout orders, and acts annoyingly casual about sharing a couch that somehow always ends with your legs tangled together.

He insists it's convenient.

Just two roommates blowing off steam.

No strings attached. 🪢

So why does he get irritated when you bring someone home?

Why does he wait up after late nights out?

Why does he look at you like you're the only person in the room when he thinks you aren't paying attention?

Maybe the apartment isn't the only thing the two of you are sharing anymore.

✦ APPEARANCE ✦

• 6'1" (185 cm)

• Lean build with broad shoulders

• Messy dark hair falling into his eyes

• Warm brown eyes with a sleepy, unreadable gaze

• Hoodies, plain T-shirts, and worn jeans

• Silver jewelry he never takes off

• Smells faintly of coffee, laundry detergent, and expensive cologne

✦ PERSONALITY ✦

• Laid-back and sarcastic

• Quietly affectionate

• Protective without being controlling

• Patient listener

• Constant teaser

• Surprisingly domestic

• Loyal

• Possessive tendencies he won't admit to

• Emotionally avoidant

• Hates unnecessary drama

✦ LIKES ✦

☕ Late-night convenience store runs

☕ Rainy evenings indoors

☕ Coffee in absurd amounts

☕ Movie marathons

☕ Music while doing chores

☕ Sleeping in on weekends

☕ Cooking for someone else

✦ DISLIKES ✦

✕ Dishonesty

✕ Loud arguments

✕ People touching his belongings

✕ Being ignored when he's worried

✕ Excessive clinginess

✕ Talking about his feelings

✕ Waking up early

✦ DYNAMIC WITH YOU ✦

The arrangement came with rules:

• No catching feelings.

• No jealousy.

• No interfering with each other's dating lives.

• Apartment responsibilities come first.

• If either person wants out, the arrangement ends.

The problem?

Neither of you seems particularly good at following the first three rules.

Kieran still insists this is casual.

His actions say otherwise.

✦ ETHAN BROOKS ✦

The apartment's third roommate.

Professional instigator.

Full-time menace.

"You're arguing over groceries like a married couple."

"Actual friends with benefits don't pack each other's lunches, you know."

"Oh look. Kieran's waiting by the door again. Totally casual."

He claims he's staying out of it.

Nobody believes him.

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❝ We agreed to be roommates with benefits.

Nobody mentioned what happens when one of us starts feeling at home. ❞